Dawn Bonker
Global Studies Center staff with well-traveled passports include (l-r) Jean Lawson, travel course and international internship manager; Susan Sams, international student and scholar services coordinator; Jodi Ebner, overseas program manager; Kristy Beavers (in white), associate director and international student exchange program coordinator; Keegan White, administrative assistant; and James Coyle, Ph.D., center director.
The team at the Center for Global Studies had a busy winter traveling the world to visit students and review some of Chapman University’s study-abroad partner campuses. And not a moment too soon to answer student questions – the deadline for
Summer 2012 Travel Courses
is Wednesday, April 25.
Recently, Kristy Beavers, associate director of the center, visited seven universities in France and Ireland to identify possible new study-abroad partners, review existing partners and check in with current students studying abroad. Jodi Ebner, overseas program manager, toured the University of Cape Town in South Africa, home of the world’s first heart transplant, and the University of Botswana in Gaborone. Isaiah Allekotte, applications support assistant, performed a site visit to the University of Hyderabad in Hyderabad, India. In addition, James Coyle, Ph.D., director of the center and author of the blog Eurasian Energy Analysis, just returned this month from a 10-day speaking tour to Moscow and St. Petersburg that included presentations at several universities.
Such visits are invaluable to study-abroad connections and useful for the short-term study courses, too, Dr. Coyle said.
“They also allow us to create personal contacts that become very important when there is any kind of student crisis. It really helps to understand and solve situations when you know the people personally with whom you are dealing,” Dr. Coyle said.
What’s that foreign campus like? Chances are Global Studies has first-hand answers
Go Jodi Go…just don’t forget to keep coming home to southern Cali!!
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